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...Frederic, in a fit of moral fervor, sneaks out the back door and rushes home to this wife like a sheepish criminal. Helene breaks out in a fit of weeping, suggesting that she too has been spending an illicit interlude. Frederic sweeps her off to bed a-quiver with righteous reaffirmation of his marriage vows...
...takes only weekend courses at Chicago State University. "Once I saw school as a real alternative to the ordinary American life, and I lived differently from other people," she says. "Now I go to work every day. I'm not unreflective, but I'm not as self-righteous...
...annual meetings of India's ruling Congress Party are an incongruous mixture of Woodstock nation and revival meeting. Thousands of the party faithful from all over India gather for a few days in the sun-and hours of righteous breast-beating about the worthiness of the party. The sessions are mostly therapeutic, allowing delegates to blow off steam while remaining comfortably aware that none of the resolutions adopted will create any real changes in the life of the party or the nation...
Sleuth. The most overrated film thus far this year. Joseph L. Manckiewicz directs with the tired hands of an old whore, and the screenplay itself is not really that clever-an indictment of upper-class gamesmanship which considers itself righteous by having hairdresser Michael Caine expose detective story writer Laurence Olivier as a fake Labored...
...decaying Ottoman Empire, a policy that outraged Liberals who felt that it was a violation of British principles to support a corrupt regime. To stretch a point or two, Disraeli even had a McGovern hectoring him in the person of Gladstone, the Liberal leader who thundered his righteous indignation at the power politics played behind his back. Gladstone was an inveterate moralizer who, as André Maurois once noted, "was reproached not so much for always having the ace of trumps up his sleeve as for claiming that God had put it there...